Artur Gorgey

Artur Gorgey (30 January 1818-21 May 1916) was a Major-General of the Honved of Hungary during the Hungarian War of Independence.

Biography
Artur Gorgey was born on 30 January 1818 in Toporec, Slovakia, Austrian Empire. He studied chemistry at the University of Prague while also having a military career, and in 1848 he joined the Honved of Hungary during their revolution in the Hungarian War of Independence. He captured Count Odon Zichy and hanged him for treason against Hungary, and at the Battle of Ozora he captured 10,000 prisoners. Gorgey was a successful general, but the uprising was eventually crushed by the intervention of the Russian Empire as an ally of Austria. Gorgey was not court-martialed or executed, and he was called a traitor by the public. He died in Budapest in 1916.